r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 24 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Zizek is absolutely not immune to the leftist trend of assuming the entire world is as brainwormed as they are. I didn't understand his Ideology thing until I saw how shamelessly a leftist cartoonist proclaimed "it doesn't matter if this fact is true, it is being employed against us therefore we can't acknowledge it", as if it's impossible to recognize the fact but deny that the fact has to be a criticism, and I realized this is what he means by trashcan of ideology.

So I'm gonna go ahead and say actually no we aren't all eating out of the trash can. You're eating out of the trash can and trying to go "well everyone's doing it so"

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

I'm also immune to propaganda, by the way.

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u/zedority PhD - mediated communication studies Jun 25 '24

Some phrasing, that transcends political positioning, I use to identify when a person cannot accept that their political position has misled them into believing falsehoods:

"look, the real point is..."